Words matter. These are the best Country Singer Quotes from famous people such as Dinah Shore, Ronnie Milsap, Blake Shelton, Steve Earle, Buck Owens, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.
I was signed to RCA to be a country singer.
I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a country singer, my dad always told me, ‘Son, you should write a song about your brother.’
I’m a country singer, and I’m comfortable with that. But why does a country singer have to play only on country radio or a rock singer only on a rock station? I still don’t understand why it’s that big a deal.
I didn’t say I wasn’t gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain’t gonna sing no song that ain’t a country song. I won’t be known as anything but a country singer.
There’s no way to be able to tell what it’s like to be a country singer until you’re walking in the shoes.
I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
‘The Voice’ ignited a fire in me to be an artist and to be a country singer, but not winning ignited an even bigger fire, because I was just like, ‘First of all, I know that I want this’; now I wanted it even more, ’cause I didn’t know if I had a record deal.
I’m a traditional country singer and we’re always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That’s always going to be the challenge with me.
My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn’t get that off that ground. I was afraid, very tentative to do anything with music for years. I didn’t tell him I was playing in bands when I was away from home, because it had been such an unpleasant experience and a letdown for him.
There are fewer roles, and I’ve done so many things already that I don’t want to repeat, so to find something you haven’t done is harder. I don’t want to play a country singer again.
I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working – when I first moved to Nashville – in a bar in a Holiday Inn.
My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school.
It’s silly to throw things out or label things. You know, is U2 a Christian band, or was Johnny Cash a Christian country singer? I don’t know, but they’re pretty open about their faith.
I want to be a country singer more than anything in the world.
I didn’t start out to be a country singer. It just happened that way.
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I’m Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
People go, ‘Oh, you’re another guy who crossed over to country.’ I say, name another one. Name one other pop singer who’s done what I’ve done as a country singer. There isn’t one.
As a country singer, there is only one place you dream of playing in your lifetime, and that is the Grand Ole Opry House.
I don’t think I’m a country artist, really. I’m a country person, but I don’t think I’m necessarily a country singer or musician.
Favorite country singer of all time… Hank Williams… Well, then there’s Willie Nelson. Can I have three? I can’t do one. Then if I have three, I’ll need five. Hank Williams for sure. Willie Nelson. Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings.
I always know I’m a country singer, and regardless of where I’ve fallen into different places with my music, I know that, really, I’m a country singer.
When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer – just a singer.
If I was just a country singer, I wouldn’t be near as cool and I wouldn’t have nowhere near as cool of a fan base.
I’m not trying to claim I’m a country singer, but I do love country music.
I have so much respect for the genre of country music and for all the greats that have been a part of it. I’m a country singer, I’m a country fan, and I’m a student of country music.
Even though I’m a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.
Whether or not I considered myself a country singer, when I sang a country song, I was as good as anybody.
I want to produce a country album for a country singer.
What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn’t choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.
